Category: "Miscellaneous"
Ghostbusters III: Hellbent Movie Scripts
Way before Ghostbusters: Afterlife was a gleam in Jason Reitman's eye, Dan Aykroyd was trying his damnedest to get a third Ghostbusters film off the ground. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, he wrote several drafts of a script that was subtitled Hellbent.… more »
Happy Holidays from Slimer! and The Real Ghostbusters
Just a quick post to wish all Jewish Ghostheads a Happy Hanukkah today, and an advanced Merry Christmas to all Christian Ghostheads. Here are two panels from NOW Comic's Slimer! #11 that are very appropriate for this time of year. As a holiday gift to… more »
Ghostbusters 3 Plot Details & Script Pages
The recently-released book A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever, which I reviewed a few days ago, includes four plot summaries of aborted Ghostbusters 3 scripts. Let's take a look at them... more »
Spook Central Halloween Treat - Moans From The Mausoleum CD
By Paul Rudoff on Oct. 31, 2022 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Miscellaneous, Music , Tags: halloween_treat
I shop at a lot of thrift stores, yard sales, garage sales, white elephant sales, and flea markets to find dirt cheap physical media. I mainly buy DVDs and Blu-rays to add to my "I have way too many" collection (or to buy for friends), but on occasion I… more »
Ghostbusters Day 2022 News Recap
By Paul Rudoff on Jun. 9, 2022 at 9:39 PM , Categories: Miscellaneous, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Yesterday, June 8, 2022, was "Ghostbusters Day", commemorating the anniversary of the original film's theatrical release in 1984. Sony held a screening of Afterlife on the Sony lot in an event that they dubbed "Ecto-Fest". Prior to the movie, various… more »
Paul's Online Store Reopens at www.BuyItHere.tk
Aside from some Amazon Affiliates links (which generate a measly 1% for each item sold), I don't run any advertising here on Spook Central. This is by design, as I don't want to bombard my visitors with lots of flashy ads cluttering up the place. I also… more »
Spook Central Halloween Treat - Unusual Ghostbusters Songs, Volume 2
By Paul Rudoff on Oct. 31, 2021 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Miscellaneous, Music , Tags: halloween_treat
This year's Halloween Treat will be a musical feature, showcasing ten unusual or unique (or just plain weird) Ghostbusters songs. Some songs will be good, some will be bad, some will in the middle, and some will be "so bad they're good". There is no… more »
Spook Central Halloween Treat - Ghostbusters Videos Collection
By Paul Rudoff on Oct. 31, 2019 at 11:56 AM , Categories: Ghostbusters 1, Miscellaneous, Ghostbusters 2, The 2016 Parody Remake , Tags: halloween_treat
This year's Halloween Treat is simple collection of Ghostbusters videos that I have uploaded to my accounts on Critical Commons and Internet Archive (there's also old stuff on YouTube and DailyMotion you can check out). There is a lot of Ghostbusters… more »
Ghostbusters Fan Fest 2019
By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 28, 2019 at 11:28 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 1, Miscellaneous, Ghostbusters 2, Real Ghostbusters, Extreme Ghostbusters, Cast & Crew, Fans, The 2016 Parody Remake
On Friday June 7th and Saturday June 8th 2019, Wizard World and Sony Pictures held the first ever Ghostbusters Fan Fest. What transpired at the event? Read on the find out... more »
That Time Jim Carrey & Skeletor Were At Ghost Corps Headquarters
For those of you who have been living under a rock with Patrick, back in 2015 Ivan Reitman and company formed a group called Ghost Corps, under the Sony banner, to handle all future Ghostbusters projects. The company is headquarted on the Sony Pictures… more »
Altered Ghostbusters Historical Photos
By Paul Rudoff on Sep. 8, 2018 at 11:30 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 1, Miscellaneous, Ghostbusters 2
When you've been doing this for as long as I have - last month marked Spook Central's 22nd anniversary - you tend to become intimately familiar with historical Ghostbusters photographs. I've seen the same images over and over again in various… more »
Spook Central Halloween Treat - Unusual Ghostbusters Songs, Volume 1
By Paul Rudoff on Oct. 31, 2017 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Miscellaneous, Music , Tags: halloween_treat
This year's Halloween Treat will be a musical feature, showcasing ten unusual or unique (or just plain weird) Ghostbusters songs. Some songs will be good, some will be bad, some will in the middle, and some will be "so bad they're good". There is no… more »
The Ghostbusters 'n' Wrestling Connection
(Thanks to Matthew Jordan for making this look so nice) (This is an updated and revised version of an article originally published on September 28, 2012) Ghostly Greetings to all of my fellow 'Crappers coming to Spook Central via the link in my Someone… more »
McBusters - The Ghostbusters/McDonald's Crossover You Never Knew You Wanted
What do you get when you cross Ghostbusters with McDonald's? Well, you get a set of school supplies, tray liners/placemats, and bicycle accessories. That's true, of course, but you also get the McBusters! What are the McBusters, you may ask? Simply put,… more »
Titanic 100th Anniversary
The RMS Titanic, the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner, left on its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England to New York City, carrying everyone from plutocrats to penniless emigrants. Titanic had an estimated 2,224 people… more »
Ghostbusters 3 Hellbent Script To Appear In IDW's Comic Book Series
Comic artist Tristan Jones, who designed the rotating series of Spook Central banners you see atop this site, has let me in on a little secret. Dan Aykroyd's Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent script will be adapted into comic book form starting in Ghostbusters… more »
What's On The Menu At WienerWald
It all started innocently enough. Two and a half years ago I bought a vintage 1947 Tavern on the Green souvenir photo from a yard sale. I thought it was a nice, unique historical item with a connection to Ghostbusters. I didn't think I would ever have… more »
Shot On Site - The Ghostbusters Celebrate Christmas Near A Familiar Location
By Paul Rudoff on May. 22, 2011 at 8:20 AM , Categories: Miscellaneous, Ghostbusters 2, Filming Locations , Tags: shot-on-site
I can't believe that it's been a year since I wrote my last Shot On Site article. Even though I have five Ghostbusters filming locations positively identified, it's taken me a whole 12 months to finally write up an article about just one of them.… more »
Jim Belushi Helps A (Blues) Brother Out
Last week's episode of Jim Belushi's new series The Defenders, entitled "Nevada v. Dennis" (airdate 12/8/2010), featured a special guest appearance. Prominently sitting on Belushi's character's desk was a bottle of Dan Aykroyd's Crystal Head Vodka. Jim… more »
Free U.S. Custom House History DVD
The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House celebrated its 100th anniversary back in 2007, and to mark the momentous occasion - one which almost didn't happen had the building been demolished back in 1979 like some had wanted - the U.S. General Services… more »
Ghostbusters Los Angeles Firehouse 100th Anniversary
By Paul Rudoff on Oct. 2, 2010 at 5:13 PM , Categories: Ghostbusters 1, Miscellaneous, Ghostbusters 2
By all accounts, it was 100 years ago today, on October 2, 1910, that Fire Station #23 in Los Angeles, California opened for firefighting business. Ghostheads would know it best as the shooting location for the interiors of Ghostbusters Headquarters in… more »
Shot On Site - Fort Detmerring Exterior
By Paul Rudoff on May. 27, 2010 at 5:34 AM , Categories: Ghostbusters 1, Miscellaneous, Filming Locations , Tags: shot-on-site
For the past two years Chris Stewart has been writing a series of Shot On Site articles over at Proton Charging that document the little-known Ghostbusters filming locations, usually with diagrams showing how he was able to determine the locale in the… more »
Ghostbusters Adult References, Part 1
I've covered Ghostbusters references in mainstream media here and there, now it's time to take a peep behind the red curtain at the references and parodies in the world of adult entertainment. Although I'm trying my absolute best to keep this clean, and… more »
Tavern On The Green Closes Next Week
[UPDATE 1/1/2010 - Click to page 2 for an article and videos about the closing.] The legendary restaurant Tavern on the Green, where Louis was refused entry because they don't allow pets, will have its last seating on December 31, 2009 after 75 years of… more »
Captain Lou Albano Remembered
Wrestling personality and pop culture icon Captain Lou Albano passed away this past Wednesday at age 76. If you grew up in the 1980s, you probably remember him from his trademark Hawaiian shirts, wiry goatee and rubber bands hung like piercings from his… more »
Ghostbuster Song Roots Found? - Part 2
No, this isn't an article about how Winston is a descendant of Kunta Kinte, though The Real Ghostbusters episode "Moaning Stones" might suggest that to be true. This is actually a follow-up to a piece Chris over at Proton Charging wrote back in July… more »
Ghostbusters Greystone Mansion In Los Angeles Times (October 2004)
At the beginning of December 2004 I asked my friends in California, Doreen Mulman and Nora Salisbury for help with something. Unfortunately, they had so much on their plate at the time (and still do) that they were unable to help me out. I forgot about… more »
Ghostbusters 3 News
Nothing we haven't heard before, but two new articles have been posted online, and so I've added them to the bottom of the GB3 Progress page. The short version is this: Dan Aykroyd is still interested, but nobody else is. He can't move forward with his… more »
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